Has a great look / analysis at the Halos, finally some media coverage...among their suggestions, send Kotch down.  I missed the entire segment.

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You'll probably get to see a knuckle ball pitcher Wednesday. He has a .68 ERA in 40 innings at AAA. Should be fun.

BTW - the Count has not been placed on the DL as of yet. They will decide tomorrow. Maybe a miracle will happen and he'll get over his injury.

See you in the Windy City.

We looked foolish against this guy. God forbid how it's going to go in Chi Town with all those arms they've got over there. All you can do is tip your cap to Halladay and move on. The guy might win the Cy Young, he's that good.

We can't hit. We can't score. 19 runs in the last 8 games, 7 of those in one game. To add a little insult to injury, we gave up bombs in the last 24 hours to both Troy Glaus and Benjie Molina, and lost both games to them.

The thing I don't like about losing those two guys is their veteran leadership. It seems as though Stoneman doesn't put a very high mark toward that quality. Yes, Benjie was so slow that (insert joke here), and Troy Glaus was brittle for a couple years. But these guys were integral pieces of the Angel machinery. They were veterans damnit, they've been through the wars. And we don't seem to care at all about that, and I don't get it.

I still simply cannot believe the ease with which we let Glaus go. It's striking how stupid it all seems to me now. The guy is going to hit 40 HR's now that he's back in the AL, and he's a fine third baseman. It makes me sick inside. The guy not only hit rockets, he hit them in some of the biggest games our franchise has ever played in. And we did all this for Dallas MacPherson. Wow. I need to change the subject now, I'm feeling ill.

I know everyone is saying the same things again this year, Adam Kennedy is gone, hit the bricks pal, thanks for everything, etc. And all because a can't miss guy is driving the ball like crazy down in the minors. Well, what about Kennedy? He's been hitting damn .300 for a long time now, I guess that's chopped liver. Here we go again.

Now we go to Chicago. Perhaps we should just intentionally walk Konerko every time up. I don't have a good feeling about him this week. Although he never came here, he's another one who "got away" from us. He already has 24 runs batted in, is hitting .330 and has an OPS of about 1000 or something like that. Thank god we didn't get to sign him, because he would've been blocking Kotchman...hey, I gotta vent at least a little or the goodvibes won't come back!

If we don't hit the ball in this series things could start to get a little chippy in the media. We can't roll over against these guys. If we happen to get swept (god forbid) we will be reeling, particularly if we don't hit.

The panther has got to come out soon. We've gotta start getting nasty, pissed off. We need Vlad and GA to get hot now. Lighten the load for everybody else, so they can relax and make better contact. We need it.

Weaver is 1-5 now. We paid 8 million dollars for this guy. I officially want Paul Byrd back.

Shaq was fat, shaq was lazy, Shaq didn't have the work ethic, Shaq needed a mental adjustment, etc.

Shaq led the Lakers to 3 titles in a row.

Who were all the kids that Glaus was supposed to mentor? He was still pretty young himself! The team wasn't in the same construct as now, we didn't have all these kids coming up from the minors needing mentoring.

It sounds like you're saying that Glaus didn't want to win. I never had that impression, but maybe that's just bias on my part.

Nobody seems to value the worth of a big bat around here. Nobody. Nobody wanted to trade for Manny Ramirez, because we would've had to trade Kendrick and Wood. Whaaaaa?

I remember we had a GM who said "we won't trade Jim Edmonds, not for Mark Maguire". Whaaaa??

No, but we will trade him for Kent Bottenfield, or whatever the hell that guy's name was.

Nobody gives any worth to the big bat. How many games do we have to score 3 runs or less before we figure out we need a little offense around here?

I think this off season, by then it will have gotten through.  Man, not only did the Chi Sox resign Konerko, no, they went out and got Thome. Now they have two different guys who at least once a week drive in 4 or 5 in a game singlehanded, these guys turn a game into an easy win at least once a week, they turn games into "well, its 7-1 White Sox in the top of the 4th", and the game is over already. Easy wins like that are a blessing for a team, they take the load off.

One day we will have players who provide games like that. I'm sure of it. Hopefully it will be soon. The situational hitting takes us so far. We need somebody who is a monster in the lineup.